2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

EDU 234 Infants, Toddlers, & Twos

Lecture: 3 Lab: 0 Clinic: 0 Credits: 3
This course covers the development of high-quality, individualized, responsive/engaging relationships and experiences for infants, toddlers, and twos. Emphasis is placed on typical and atypical child development, working with diverse families to provide positive, supportive, and engaging early learning activities and interactions through field experiences and the application of the NC Foundations for Early Learning and Development. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate responsive curriculum planning, respectful relationships and exposure to a variety of developmentally appropriate experiences/materials that support a foundation for healthy development and growth of culturally, linguistically and ability diverse children birth to 36 months.

Pre-requisite(s): EDU 119  and EDU 144.  
Course is typically offered in Spring.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At completion of the course, the student should be able to do the following:

  1. Design developmentally appropriate curriculum, daily schedules, and individualized weekly plans which incorporate the NC Foundations for Early Learning and Development. 
  2. Formulate strategies that develop responsive/engaging relationships and experiences for infants, toddlers, and twos. 
  3. Create developmentally appropriate learning materials for infants, toddlers, and twos. 
  4. Design developmentally appropriate learning environments for infants, toddlers, and twos. 
  5. Develop strategies for establishing reciprocal relationships with diverse families.